Sentence examples for endless crusade from inspiring English sources

American presidents liked that word: Thomas Jefferson launched "a crusade against ignorance," Theodore Roosevelt exhorted compatriots to "spend and be spent in an endless crusade" and F.D.R., calling for a "new deal" in his acceptance speech at the 1932 Democratic convention, issued "a call to arms," a "crusade to restore America to its own people".

This endless crusade has achieved a state of perpetual motion generated by a confluence of dogmatic ideology, intellectual obstinacy, cynical political calculation and the exertions of powerful financial and professional interests.

The man's endless crusade against injustice makes it seem like there has been a secret army of Stetsons roving the country for the past 94 years, surely and steadily rectifying the worst aspects of the human condition.

He is adamant that identity is not "just a philosopher's fuss" and that the world bears the scars of endless crusades fought to protect it.

From the Assassins of the eleventh-century, to the seemingly endless Crusades, and the Victorian ex-pats who flourished in this alien culture (visiting Jane Digby's crumbling mansion a particular highlight), Moss knew the history of Syria better than an academic.

I suppose you could argue that the great myth that sprang from the same area hasn't done anyone much good either: pogroms, crusades, cleansings and endless violence are one way of seeing the cursed inheritance of Abraham's children.

His one-man crusade to burnish links across the Channel, fuelled by endless bonhomie, was characteristic of a much-loved man".

Meanwhile, the country the old man has helped to create seems to be on a crusade that, in its pursuit of vengeance and the endless war, looks a lot like jihad.

Earlier that year, the government was plagued with inefficiency and endless corruption allegations leading to protests and the rise of a massive anti-corruption crusade.

Mr. Davis's execution and the crusade it ignited ultimately bring to bear larger questions of a longing for an end to seemingly endless appeals.

But by the time Harry Truman left office in 1953, Katznelson says, the New Deal had been tamed, its broad vision replaced by endless rounds of interest group politics, its foreign policy driven by a national security state more interested in grand crusades — and enormous military spending — than in democratic processes.